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PORTSMOUTH EM

SITE SPECIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

MINUTES OF THE THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019, SSAB MEETING • 6:00 P.M.

Location: The Ohio State University Endeavor Center, Room 160, Piketon, Ohio

Site Specific Advisory Board (SSAB) Members Present: Chair, Bob Berry; Vice-Chair, Carlton Cave; Dr. Todd Burkitt, Brad Burns, Carol Caudill, Jody Crabtree, Dennis Foreman, Jimmy Smalley, Beckie Thomas-Kent, Cynthia Quillen, Judy Vollrath SSAB Members Absent: Lisa Bennett, Rick Fraley, Turman Helton U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Contractors: Greg Simonton, DOE; Rick Greene, RSI EnTech; Julie Galloway, Cindy Lewis, EHI Consultants (EHI); Jack Williams, Jill Thomson, Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth (FBP) Liaisons: Sean Kubera, Ohio Department of Health (ODH); Amy Tegethoff, Tom Schneider, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Facilitator: Eric Roberts, EHI Public: Pat Marida, Sierra Club; Vina Colley, PRESS/NNWJ; David Manuta, MC2; Lee Blackburn, Diana Cahall, JD Dowell

Approved by Bob Berry, Board Chair

Bob Berry

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Call to Order: Berry: I would like to call the meeting to order. Roberts: I would like to welcome everyone, and I will be facilitating the meeting. There will be a public comment period after the presentations. The board should stay within its defined scope and follow the meeting ground rules adopted. October Agenda: Roberts: Are there any modifications or proposed changes to the March agenda?

• Cave: I make a motion to approve the March agenda. • Burns: I second the motion.

o Motion carried, minutes approved October Minutes: Roberts: Are there any modifications or proposed changes to the December minutes?

• Burns: I make a motion to approve the December minutes. • Crabtree: I second the motion.

o Motion carried, minutes approved DDFO comments provided by Greg Simonton, Federal Project Coordinator:

• Environmental Management System (EMS) Integrates with ISMS and Sustainability

• Safety Outside the Work Place • PORTS Integrated Baseline • D&D Progress-X-326 Deactivation

o Safely Completed X-326 Wet Air Removal Station o Field work complete

• D&D Progress – X-333 Deactivation • OSWDF Construction • OSWDF Construction-Building the X-611B New Emergency Spillway &

Pump and Treat • Groundwater Cleanup • Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Plant Update • Site Tours

o Joint Information Center – SSAB Tour o DOE Public Tour Dates for 2019

• Economic Development – Fluor-BWXT Donates $142,500 for Economic Development in Jackson

• Community Outreach • Upcoming Outreach Events

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Question/Comment: Answer: Foreman: Has there been any movement on the utilities on the 80 acres? How long does it take to get a response if someone can go on a tour?

Simonton: Yes, the sewer will come from us, gas with us, water and electric may come from off-site. If they talk to Deneen Garner she can tell you if she has spots open. You can still get your name on the list up to a couple of days before.

Smalley: With DUF6’ are they using rail? Simonton: Yes, that is the way it is shipped. We had a shipment this week. The rail had some repairs done, so it is back up and running again.

Quillen: It is important to know that the Joint Information Center (JIC) can also be used by the county. If there is a county disaster, it can be used to assist the county.

A copy of the DDFO presentation is available on the SSAB web site (www.ports-ssab.energy.gov)

Federal Project Coordinator comments provided by Greg Simonton, Federal Project Coordinator: None at this time. Liaison comments provided by Sean Kubera, ODH: Kubera: None at this time. Liaison comments provided by Amy Tegethoff, Tom Schneider, OEPA: Tegethoff: None at this time. Schneider: None at this time. Administrative Issues: None at this time. Subcommittee Updates: D&D/Remediation Subcommittee Update by Brad Burns: Burns: The D&D/Remediation and Future Use Subcommittee met on January 8. The purpose of the meeting was to present an update on the public comment period for Draft Supplemental EIS for DUF6 presented by Greg Simonton. The subcommittee met again on February 12. The purpose of the meeting was to receive a X-326 Criticality Incredible status presented by Bob Leonard.

Question/Comment: Answer: Burkett: Where is the hydrofluoric acid that is being sold? Does that money go back to DOE?

Simonton: It is hydrofluoric acid it is used for industry like etching glass/metals. It goes back to offset the project.

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Future Use and Infrastructure Coordination Subcommittee Update by Dennis Foreman: Foreman: The Future Use and Infrastructure Coordination Subcommittee met on January 8. The purpose of the meeting was to have a tour of PORTS Joint Information Center by Rob Dupras. The subcommittee met again on February 12. The purpose of the meeting was to present a Railroad Infrastructure update presented by Adam Reeder.

Question/Comment: Answer: Foreman: The $115 million, is that now allocated? I thought I saw something in the news about it. Are there generator back-ups? They said they had some discussions about it. It would be nice in the future to have it. We had 50-mile winds the other day, you never know when you will have an outage.

Simonton: I do not know the answer to that. Roberts: We will find out. Quillen: No, for that building we do not have one, but for the EOC we do.

Workforce Development, Education Outreach and Worker Training Subcommittee Update by Cindy Quillen: Quillen: The Historic Legacy & Community Engagement Subcommittee met on January 8. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the Fluor-BWXT Internship program presented by Todd Cron and Jan Paul White. The subcommittee met again on February 12. The purpose of the meeting was to have a preview of the Science Bowl presented by Jeff Pinkerton. Public Comment: Blackburn: I have three items. The first is one I have talked about for a long time that is the landfills outside Perimeter Road. They are toxic dumps and they need to be cleaned up. The board needs to do a recommendation to DOE that says these toxic dumps need to be dug up. If you do not do it, someday there will be a problem and DOE will say hey no one never said anything, the board didn’t say anything. So, you need to make a recommendation to clean them up and then let DOE decide what they want to do. Second item I have is Recommendation 18-02, which was presented last year and did not pass. The board operating procedures say that recommendations that do not pass will have a majority and minority report written and submitted to DOE and as far as I know they have not been submitted. Dennis you already have a majority report which is the recommendation and those six members that voted against it can write a minority report and submit that as well. But please submit your majority report to DOE so they know what part of the board

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wanted to have done. The third item is the ROD on waste disposition. It is wrong, therefore meaningless because it has come to light that the bedrock underneath the on-site disposal cell facility is fractured. When you read the ROD, it says solid bedrock and it is not. There are other faults in the ROD as well. DOE in reference to Recommendation 15-05 as well as DOE counsel have both said the DUF6 will not go into the on-site disposal cell but if you read the ROD it says that some of the piping from the process buildings which contains DUF6 will be cut up and put into the landfill. So, that is other issue and brings up the point. Tom how is it possible that OEPA is Ok with having signed off on a faulty ROD? Do you still agree with that ROD and if so why? Thank you. Manuta: I want to make a couple of quick points. First one is Greg when you were doing your presentation, I wanted to make sure I heard the word hydrogen fluoride and not hydrogen chloride because that is critically important. Second thing, I wanted to say was when Brad was talking. The key issue is the money compound, it is the degree of the enrichment that determines whether it is used in weapons grade or reactors. The DUF6 tanks are depleted, because every time you remove the product you are leaving behind a lower concentration of uranium 235 and the other material, which is the depleted material. Keep in mind that the thousands of cylinders that Eric is talking about have been stacked up for the lifetime of the plant. The idea is that the uranium hydrogen fluoride that is in them is much less stable than the oxide that came out of the ground, and so what the DUF6 process does is converts the fluoride back to the oxide and the by-product is HF, hydrogen fluoride. I mentioned to the leadership that if you do it right the amount of HF could be sold and pay for the whole thing and eventually it will get to that point. It is important to recognize the value of the HF. Cahall: To follow-up just a little bit on the comment that Lee was making on the waste disposal criteria, DOE has issued a document that notifies the public to send DUF6 conversion waste from Portsmouth and Paducah to locations in Nevada, a Nevada security site and Energy Solutions in Utah, Waste Control Specialist in Texas, one of those three and a forth which is leaving the DUF6 on-site, which I do not think anyone here would vote for. So, in that decision-making process, they are talking about the empty cylinders being crushed or cut up and disposed as waste. With the heels in those cylinders, they removed most of them, but I think some are still left in them. Might ask some questions about whether they go into the waste disposal facility. Is that allowed in the facility and if not, why not? I would push for that because nobody wants DUF6, or worse, transuranic heels. That’s all I have, thank you Marida: I am the chair of the Ohio Sierra Club. I handed out a couple of papers to you today. First, I want to talk about the Code of Conduct because I have seen in a lot of meetings their code of conducts are famous for silencing people within the leadership, so it can be used as a way of marginalizing a member of a committee or member of the public. Pay attention to the person’s argument and, of course, personal attacks are unacceptable from any side. One of the hand-outs I gave you

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was about the draft EIS for the disposition of the uranium oxide from the depleted uranium in the core. The Sierra Club knows that the three places that the ban was mentioned that it suggested the waste go is Texas, Utah and Nevada. Texas is clearly the closest so that would mean there was a financial advantage to sending it to Texas, but the Sierra Club has some serious concerns about that. We have concerns about transport in the bags because they clearly are not as robust as the cylinders. Therefor in case of an accident it would be pretty easy for them to pop and spread all over. Then we wonder also if the DOE is making some kind of policy or De Facto regulation by writing this paper and we have a question about that. About the three different places, the Sierra Club has a long history of opposing private radio active dumps. The ones in Texas and Utah are private dumps. So at least in theory the public has some control over what happens in a publicly owned dump which is the Nevada National Security Site. Private dumps can also go bankrupt and leave a horrible mess for the public to clean up. We do not have confidence in this material getting one step farther away from public oversite. And we definitely oppose it being moved to WCS in Texas because that sits above the Ogallala aquifer, which is a water source for six states. Maps show the aquifer to be under that site, but WCS with their application says they moved the location of the aquifer, so they say it is no longer under the site. Because they want to make a consolidated storage for high-level waste, there is a proposal to ship high-level waste, which is the fuel rods from nuclear power plants. They ship that to a site right there at WCS. There has been a new study done with a 10-page report of the storage facility and it shows critical aquifers there. Energy Solutions at the Utah site have been fined numerous times. In 2018 they paid more than $50,000.00 in penalties for repeated violations at the Utah site. While there is no good solution for radioactive waste, the least problematic place would be the Nevada site. The Sierra Club says this material should have never been generated in the first place. Colley: PRESS/NNWJ I ditto what Blackburn said, because our group was one of the first in 1992 to find that the bedrock was fractured. We brought it up to the DOE facility in ‘94, ‘95, ‘96 we filed a petition with the centrifuge plant and in that petition you will see that the bedrock was fractured. Not only is the bedrock fractured, but the site is on top of the largest aquifer in the Midwest. So in many ways tearing this facility down and putting it in a waste cell is a crime really. I brought a couple of newspaper articles and I didn’t have time to make copies for everyone, but I hope you go back and look at them. One of them is from August 13, 1999. They don’t mention my group, but they mention plutonium, transuranics and our group brought it up before that. You have a serious problem here. You have plutonium, and transuranics all over this site, off-site, in the creek, in the river and I am inviting all of you to come to our forum. It is March 19, 2019, at the Welcome Center in Portsmouth, Ohio from 5:00 - 7:00. They have it on line now where you can sign-up if you are coming. Here is the invitation. I want you to make copies of these two newspaper articles and give them to the board so they will know exactly what is going on at this plant. We cannot go in there and demo these buildings with all these transuranics and plutonium on-site, and it cannot definitely go in that waste cell. We need to figure out something else to do. I do not know why they have

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not been listening to us all these years, but we have been telling you guys that there is plutonium out here. They admitted it in 1999, workers were compensated because of it. It’s a long battle for the workers, it is a long battle for the community. There was a lawsuit out here that has been going on for 21 years. The lawsuit was within a 10-mile area around the facility, not the east, not the west, not the south, it was all around this site and the community won. We have a serious problem out here. I would like to get a commitment from you guys to come to our meeting on the 19th. It will be the first time we have the opportunity to ask you guys questions, you can ask us questions. We have enough whistleblowers from this site that we could actually put someone in jail for what they have done to this community and these workers. Hopefully we can get our records released so that we can extend the workers to get paid. The cut-off is 1992. These new workers that come in here now and demo these buildings will not get compensated. That is our goal. Final Comments from the board: None at this time. Berry: Adjourned Next Meeting: April 4, 2019 Action Items:

• Find out if the $115 million for the Centrus project is allocated now.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Deputy Designated Federal Official PresentationPortsmouth Site Specific Advisory Board

Greg Simonton, Federal Coordinator March 7, 2019

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Safety Outside the Work Place

Blevins Receives the first-ever Charlie Lineberry Safety Award

“I truly believe that the course offered here on plant site that covers CPR, AED, and First Aid for Children, Infants and Adults is a fantastic class and should be taken by every employee if possible,” Randy Blevins

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D&D Progress – X-326 Deactivation

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D&D Progress – X-326 Deactivation -Safely Completed X-326 Wet Air Removal Station

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Field work Complete

In the X-326 Process Building, which was once the home ofhighly-enriched uranium, Fluor-BWXT personnel are streamlining efforts to deactivate the building.

D&D Progress – X-326 Deactivation -

D&D Progress – X-333 Deactivation

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OSWDF CONSTRUCTION-

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OSWDF CONSTRUCTION-Building the X-611B New Emergency Spillway & Pump and Treat

Panoramic view of the X-611B Emergency Spillway Project at the Portsmouth site.

Bright orange “pipe floats” suspend the hose that will be used to convey pumped water from the lagoon. Another view of the spillway during construction.

Groundwater Cleanup

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Groundwater

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2018

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111,800

X-701B Plume

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7-Unit Plume

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X-120 Plumes &

PK Drainage

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X-627

Groundwater Cleanup

X-622

X-623

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Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Plant Update

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Site Tours Joint Information Center - SSAB Tour

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Site Tours DOE Public Tour Dates for 2019

DOE Public Tour Dates:

April 27 -May 18-June 15-July 20-August 17-September 21-October 19

Contact Deneen Garner at deneen.garner@ports.pppo.gov

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The last Public Tour for CY2018 will be October, 20.

Economic Development –Fluor-BWXT Donates $142,500 for Economic Development in Jackson

Community Outreach

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For a full list of SSAB activities, check out the website at http://www.ports-ssab.energy.gov

Upcoming Outreach Events

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SSAB Full Board MeetingThursday, April 4, 2019

South Central Region Science Bowl VIIFriday, March 15, 2019Shawnee State University

DOE Public TourThursday, April 27, 2019

PORTSMOUTH EM

SITE SPECIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

•OSU Endeavor Center• 1862 Shyville Road • Piketon, Ohio 45661 • (740) 289-5249 •

Proposed Agenda for the March 7, 2019 Board Meeting

Chair

Robert L. Berry

Co-Vice Chair

Carlton L. Cave

Board Members

Lisa Bennett

Todd Burkitt

Bradley Burns

Jody Crabtree

Maddeline C. Caudill

Dennis Foreman

Wade Fraley

Turman Helton

Cynthia Quillen

Jimmy E. Smalley

Beckie Thomas-Kent

Judy R. Vollrath

Deputy Designated

Federal Official

Joel Bradburne

DOE Federal Coordinator

Greg Simonton

Support Services

EHI Consultants, Inc.

1862 Shyville Road

Piketon, OH 45661 Phone 740.289.5249

Fax 740.289.1578

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6 p.m.

Call to Order, Introductions

Review of Agenda

Approval of December Minutes

DDFO Comments --15 minutes

Federal Coordinator Comments --10 minutes

Liaison Comments -- 5 minutes

Administrative Issues --20 minutes

Subcommittee Updates --5 minutes

Public Comments --15 minutes

Final Comments from the Board --15 minutes

Adjourn